Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has decided to blaze a trail like its football counterpart, the Ghana Football Association to seek corporate capital to improve the sport.
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Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Thomas Awinbono, fighting only in his second year as a professional boxer, became the national super welterweight champion when he stopped fellow Godwin Cudjoe at the Azumah Nelson Sports Complex at the weekend here.
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Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Ugandan John Mugabi, a World Boxing Council (WBC) Hall of Fame nominee, is among former world boxing champions invited to the WBC-organised 'Night of Champions' billed for Mexico City later this year, local media reported here Thursday.
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Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ike "Bazooka" Quartey, Ghana's former World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight champion, has predicted he would knock out American middleweight Vernon Philips in a comeback fight scheduled for the United States next month.
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Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Sierra Leone will host Guinea and Liberia in a three-day friendly boxing competition scheduled 23-25 May at the Atlantic Hall National Stadium in Freetown.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African Zone V Amateur Boxing Championships started here Tuesday with eight teams from east and north Africa expected to feature in the competition at the Moi International Sports Centre.
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Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togo is hosting the 7th edition of the boxing championship of the Higher Council of Sports in Africa (CSSA) Zone III, rescheduled 11-16 April from the Ghana venue, sources the Togolese Boxing Federation (FTB) confirmed.
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Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Two professional Zambian boxers have accepted to participate in the Uganda invitational boxing tournament billed for later this month, according to Zambia's professional boxing trainer and manager, Anthony Mwamba.
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Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Africa Zone 1 boxing tournament has been slated for 1-3 April in the Moroccan city of Fes, 200 km east of the capital, Rabat, officials confirmed here Saturday.
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Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Cameroon registered seven victories during the Zone IV boxing tournament in Libreville to emerge the overall winner, according to official statistics released Friday.
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Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- DR Congo has lined up 33 boxers to train for the Zone IV of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA)'s tournament slated for 21-27 March in Libreville, Gabon, DRC Boxing Association (FECOBOXE) sources have said.
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Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Seven boxers were retained by Benin's Boxing Association (FBB) to take part in the seventh boxing championship of Zone III of the Supreme Council of Sports in Africa (SCSA) scheduled from 27 March to 3 April in Accra, Ghana.
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Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana has selected seven boxers, six of whom have little international exposure, to represent the country at the Zone Six championship coming up this weekend in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian Boxing Federation (FIB) has elected Lt-Colonel Stanislas N'datchi Djenini new president following poor performance of the executive bureau that was headed by Rash N'guessan.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) Zone Five will convene its general assembly and stage a boxing tournament next month in Khartoum, Sudan, the zonal secretariat announced here Thursday.
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Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A Ugandan board member of World Boxing Council, Celestino Mindra, has vowed to spearhead a campaign to have the Kenyan boxing body punished for what he described as "incompetence.
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Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Ayiyry Powers on Saturday recorded a dramatic stoppage over Mohammed Kunde of the Republic of Benin to wrestle the vacant West African light heavyweight title at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian police officers have arrested the former World Boxing Council (WBC) International Cruiserweight champion, Bash Ali, for allegedly procuring fake UK visas for 69 persons whom he had planned to take to London for a purported WBC convention, the local press reported.
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Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Uganda's boxing quarter-finalist at the 2004 Olympics in Greece, Sam Rukundo, has been invited by a professional boxing outfit in Britain, the Mayfair Sporting Club of London, for a boxing match next month.
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Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Ugandan boxing authorities have welcomed the recommendations of study urging them format local tournaments after those organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- World female Super Middleweight champion Leila Ali will 30 October lock horns with Jacqui Frazier on the 30th anniversary of a bout that pitted boxing legend Mohamed Ali against one of his arch rivals George Foreman in an epic duel in the former Zaire in 1974, organisers said Thursday.
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Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Thirty years after her father Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in Kinshasa, daughter Leila plans to fight in a boxing gala in October in the DR Congolese capital to commemorate the historic "Rumble in the Jungle" fight held on 30 October 1974 in the former Zaire.
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Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Boxer Osumanu Adama of Ghana stopped Mathurin Sechegbe of Benin in the third round to retain his West African super welterweight title at the Kanashie Sports Complex here over the weekend.
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Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Zambian pugilist John "The Hammer" Chibuta has vowed to live up to his nickname by hammering Uganda's Badru "The Striker" Lusambya in a scheduled fight for the vacant African Super Welterweight title.
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